Firefox right-click: easy support for the Firefox or the site’s menu

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Many websites have started replacing the right-click context menu with one of their own. Firefox lets me choose whether a website can disable Firefox's menu, but not much else.

Neither value of the Firefox's setting is acceptable: allow it to be blocked, and I can never access some of the features on some websites. Disallow, and I have two menus on every website that uses this feature legitimately:

                                              Looks familiar?

Is there an addon that would solve this problem elegantly? For example, by letting right-click do what the site wants, but making Ctrl+Right Click always show the Firefox menu?

Best Answer

Partial solution, but better than nothing:

With Toolbar Buttons, you have an additional button Toggle JavaScript on/off that you can add to any toolbar in Firefox.

Then, you set Firefox to allow to replace context menus by the sites.

When you don't like context menu provided by the site you're on, you toggle JS off - then, on right-click you have original Firefox menu. Toggle on and you have site's menu back.

Remember however that when the page loads, you should probably have JS turned on, otherwise you may have to reload the page for certain onload JavaScripts to be invoked.

BTW. The Toggle JavaScript on/off button, contrary to Stop Flash button, does not kill JavaScript, only let's call it "pauses it". You have to use both to see the difference ;) "Stop Flash" will kill all preloaded YouTube videos for instance, and after switching it back on, all the Flash content will have to be reloaded. JavaScript is only paused.

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